Ashurst New Forest railway station

Ashurst (New Forest) railway station is in Ashurst, Hampshire, England, on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is 85 miles 43 chains (137.7 km) down the line from Waterloo.

Ashurst (New Forest)
Ashurst station platforms
Location
Place	Ashurst
Local authority	District of New Forest
Grid reference	SU333101
Operations
Station code	ANF
Managed by	South Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.124 million
2015/16	0.129 million
2016/17	0.132 million
2017/18	0.145 million
2018/19	0.154 million
History
Original company	Southampton and Dorchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
1 June 1847	Opened as "Lyndhurst Road"
24 September 1995	Renamed "Ashurst (New Forest)"
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashurst (New Forest) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Opened as Lyndhurst Road on 1 June 1847 by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway,[1] then absorbed by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923.

The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[2]

The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. A camping coach was positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced in 1961 by a Pullman camping coach until 1965 which was joined by another Pullman for 1966 and 1967.[3]

The station was renamed Ashurst (New Forest) on 24 September 1995.[1] When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services

The station is some 200 to 300 yards from the village of Ashurst, and is used by visitors to the New Forest. It is served hourly by the London Waterloo to Poole stopping services operated by South Western Railway, with some additional fast trains to London Waterloo and to Weymouth at weekday peak periods.[4] The services are formed of Class 444 electric multiple units, and Class 450 units. Services were previously operated by Class 442 Wessex Electrics, which were withdrawn at the start of February 2007. There is a self service ticket machine on platform 1. The station is unstaffed.

Notes

1. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 53.
2. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 33. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
3. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 58 & 59. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
4. Table 158 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Totton		South Western Railway London-Poole stopping services		Beaulieu Road

Further reading

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.